Improvement in dumping-cars



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN SLUSSER, OF SIDNEY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUMPING-CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,312, dated August3, 1875; application filed January 16, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN SLUssER, of Sidney, in the county of Shelbyand State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Dumping-Oar'; and Ido hereby declare that dumping car or wagon, and certain connections,whereby it may be dumped with great convenience and little expenditureof force, while the tail-board may be automatically unfastened andopened for the discharge of the contents of the car or wagon.

A represents the body of a dumping car or wagon, and B the wheel-axles,while 0 is my improved frame, which connects them 'together. I make thisframe of the horizontal flat metallic bar 0, to the under part of whichis attached the bearings D and the two flat side supports andbracing-bars c 0 These parts require but two bolts, c 0 beside thebearing or boxing bolts 6 6 to conjoin them. The horizontal bar 0 may bemade in two bars, which are afterward riveted together, but it isunnecessary. This metallic frame is bent upon mandrels or formers, andactually constructed at a cost of less than ten dollars, or much morecheaply than a wooden frame of equal strength. On top of the pieces 0 care arranged the eyes E, and on the bars F of the body A are made theboxes G, while through the eyes E and boxes G pass the bodys pivot-barH. I is a toggle, one of whose arms is pivoted to the horizontal bar 0,while the other is pivoted in the rear of body A, the center joint beingattached to a rod, J,

is completely dumped.

that has an end hole, j, latching over a pin, K, in the front end ofhorizontal bar 0. Thus latched, the toggle-arms are held in alignmentand made to support the rear of body. As soon as the wagon or car is inposition for dumping, a comparatively light force applied to theunlatched rod J will bend or unstraighten the toggle and cause the bodyA to turn on its pivot. In a car used on short tracks the rod may beattached tosomething by which it will be automatically dumped when thecar reaches an end stop; but this is not desirable in a wagon. L is atail-board, pivoted at the top and bearing outwardly against the latchesM, which are held up by the weighted ends of levers N, said ends beingdownwardly bent at a, so as to come in contact with horizontal bar 0just before the body Thus no part of the contents of the wagon can bedischarged before the dumping is completed, and then it is performedwith efficiency and .absolute certainty.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. Thecombination of flat bars 0, 0 and c bent and united to constitute frame0, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of wagon or car body, metallic frame to which thebody is pivoted, toggle, and rod jointed to center of toggle, as and forthe purpose set forth.

The combination ofwagon or car body, metallic frame to which the bodyis. pivoted, end-weighted levers, and tail-board latches, as and for thepurpose set forth.

BENJAMIN SLUSSER. Witnesses;

SoLoN O. KEMON, CHAS. A. PETTIT.

